Skating body drops rule barring Russian 'neutral' athletes from media at Olympics

The International Skating Union has scrapped a rule which aimed to prevent Russian skaters from speaking with the media or appearing at news conferences when they compete as neutral athletes at the Milan Cortina Olympics. When it allowed some Russians and Belarusians to qualify as “individual neutral athletes” in 2024, the ISU issued rules saying those athletes and their support staff would not be allowed to give interviews, appear at news conferences or go through the media zone at qualifying events or the Winter Olympics.